President Ahmadinejad and his
impact on Iran's weapons program

Connecticut’s WDRC Radio, February 5, 2007

Transcript

Brad Davis:
I watch Fox a lot and every time I see him on Fox news,
I am fascinated by what he says about terrorism. In fact
he is a senior analyst for Fox news and has a new book:
“The Iran Threat, President Ahmadinejad and the coming
Nuclear crisis”. And I am sure you will recognize the
name: Alireza Jafarzadeh. And he is my special guest
this morning. Alireza, good morning sir.

Alireza Jafarzadeh: Good
morning to you. It is a great pleasure to be on your
show, Brad.

Brad Davis: I’ll tell you…I watch you
every time they say you will be on Fox. I just stay
glued because you don’t pull any punches. That is why I
like you.

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Brad Davis:
But this Ahmadinejad, this guy…where is he coming from?

A – Well…Ahmadinejad belongs
to one of the most radical factions within the Iranian
regime. He was groomed by the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards. By the most radical religious villains of the
Iranian regime. He was hand picked by the Supreme
Leader, Ali Khamenei to become the president. His
background is dark. He was involved in the suppression
of the Iranian students at the universities. He was
involved in the torture of the prisoners in the
notorious Evin prison. He was the commander of the most
notorious and deadly force within the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards known as the Qods force which also
translates to Jerusalem force that basically does
nothing but terrorism. And now you have this person at
the helm as the new President of the Iranian regime
since summer of 2005. He has been heavily involved in
two fields. One is to give Iran its first nuclear bomb
and second trying to change Iraq into an Islamic
Republic modeled after the Iranian regime.

Brad Davis:
Now, I understand and I have been reading about this.
The American people as a whole are not convinced we are
in a world of war. You know it…I know it and we better
wake up the United States of America. But I understand
that there is a lot of unrest going on in Iran. The
students…they are Persians and they have western ideas.
Do you think there is a possibility of an overthrow?

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
I think that is the most possible thing that we are
going to see in the near future. Just to give you an
idea, when Ahmadinejad, the regime’s President, went to
Amir Kabir university in Tehran on the “Student Day”
which is the day that every year the students celebrate
and he wanted to show that he is supporting them…when he
went there, the students shouted Ahmadinejad out of the
student hall, calling him a dictator, burning his
pictures right before his eyes. And this is a very very
daring act on the part of the students because they are
risking their lives. They get arrested, tortured and
executed just for doing that. There were 4,000
anti-government demonstrations all throughout the
country in the past one year. From down south in the oil
rich province of Khuzistan, in Ahwaz and other cities to
the Iranian Kurdish region to up northwest of the
country, Azarbaiijan province to the capital Tehran
where the bus drivers were on strike. So we have a
defying population. Actually, the younger generation of
Iran are very much opposed to the regime. On top of
that, there is an organized opposition, organized
movement that has a very democratic agenda that calls
for separation of church and state or mosque if you will
and for regime tolerance, equality for men and women…in
fact, the leader of the resistance, of the movement, is
a woman. Her name is Maryam Rajavi. She is a Moslem
woman but she is opposed to the fundamentalist extremist
views of the Ayatollahs. And that is what is giving hope
to the Iranian population. If they get enough support
from International community, and I am not talking about
arms or money, if they get political support and if the
International community stops supporting the Iranian
regime in an implicit or explicit way…then they can
settle their destiny with the Iranian regime and can
change Iran into a democracy rather than a theocracy.

Brad Davis:
You know what makes me nervous? What makes me nervous is
this Maliki shaking hands and hugging Ahmadinejad. I
said to my radio audience this morning that unless this
surge….unless we go in there and take the handcuffs, go
in there to win it, let our marines do what they are
trained to do and go after Al-Sadr and that crowd, we
might as well fold up and come home. Because that is the
key and I just hope that is what is in the Bush doctrine
this time.

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
Well brad, you mentioned it. Because I think the real
problem in Iraq is not the Iraqi people. It is the
Iranian regime’s intervention…deadly, violent
intervention in Iraq. They are sending arms, explosives.
They are training terrorists. They have a tremendous
network of intelligence in that country. There are
32,000 Iraqis who are on Tehran’s payroll acting on
behalf of Iran, including people within Maliki
administration who are more beholden to Tehran than to
the Iraqi people. Including people within the Iraqi
police, Iraqi security apparatus, Iraqi military
intelligence who are Tehran’s agents. We cannot see
democracy in Iraq when Tehran is pulling the string. The
good news about Iraq is that there is hope. The Iranian
opposition also has a presence in Iraq, in north of
Baghdad in a city known as Ashraf. They are trying to
organize the Iraqi population for the democratic,
secular, moderate forces in Iraq. To unite them around a
platform that says we want to cut off the hands of the
Iranian regime and their outreach to Iraq. We want to
have an independent country, not a country that follows
the orders from the Ayatollahs. And the first thing to
do is to limit the activities of the Iranian regime.
Arrest their agents. Hold them responsible and provide
opportunity for the Iranian opposition as a counter
balance to the rising threat of Iran in Iraq.

Brad Davis:
Well, it is interesting and I certainly know that you
are on top of this sir. I believe…I don’t know if I am
right or wrong here….but this war with Islamofascists is
going to go on for years and years. And I guess my
greatest fear is that the American people…you know, we
are funny some time. We think that we are above
everything and nobody can touch us. Yes, 911 but they
just don’t have…that is the reason we have this
tremendous void in the country now. Because they don’t
realize this is our very lives and is going to be
threatened if we don’t do something right now.

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
That is true Brad. Imagine if Iraq is further
moved to violence and the Iranian regime succeeds in
forcing the Americans and the coalition forces out of
Iraq which would mean, you the vacuum will be filled by
the Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic extremists. And it
would have a system of Islamic Republic in Iraq. Then
they would use that as a springboard to expand to the
other countries in the region, dominate the resources.
Iran has a very advanced nuclear weapons program and
just today they installed new centrifuge machines. In
fact, it was the sources of the Iranian opposition that
revealed all the major Iranian nuclear sites in August
of 2002 which triggered the inspections by the UN
watchdog to go to Iran and look at these sites. And to
find out where these centrifuge machines are. But I’ll
tell you…the nuclear program is so advanced that they
are no more than one to three years away from creating
the bomb. And imagine the Ayatollahs who are already the
leading State sponsor of terrorism getting their hands
on a nuclear bomb and then dominating Iraq. That is
going to be bad news for everyone.

Brad Davis:
Sir, Iran…

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
Even as far as small towns here in the United States.

Brad Davis:
“The Iran Threat” is the book my friends. And I thank
you sir for being with me this morning.

Alireza Jafarzadeh:
Thank you very much Brad.

Brad Davis:
You bet. Alireza Jafarzadeh…you see him on Fox news a
great deal.

The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis by
Alireza Jafarzadeh